Reposted by The Freundlich GroupNPR @npr.org · 07/06/2025The global LGBTQ+ festival was held for the first time in the nation's capital. Organizers say the current political environment has dampened the excitement surrounding the celebration.n.prWorldPride caps off its first D.C. celebration with a weekend paradeThe global LGBTQ+ festival was held for the first time in the nation's capital. Organizers say the current political environment has dampened the excitement surrounding the celebration. 1064993
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupColeen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Please tell your friends and family who are still parroting the lie that academic research can be replaced by private industry 093
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupMichal Caspi Tal, PhD @immunofever.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Book research on how names shift science. How do controversial ideas become accepted in medical research and medicine? T-suppressor cells were "debunked" and then rebranded as #Tregs. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome now ME w/ #ChronicLyme to #IACI following #LongCOVID. I want to hear your stories!! 4224
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupNPR @npr.org · 01/06/2025Your state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will.n.prAmericans are warned as latest DMV phishing scam targets phonesYour state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will. 45650151
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupKelsie Wentz @kek-kelsie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025The Wentz lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining a brand new research group and interested in the synthesis of new functional main-group based heterocyles and polymers can apply at the link below. Please share! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29781indiana.peopleadmin.comPostdoctoral Fellow - Wentz LabThe Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University, consists of a well-rounded research community with cutting-edge expertise in a wide variety of modern disciplines i... 025
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupChemKritzer @chemkritzer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Boston-area pharma/biotech people! Are you considering a future in teaching? Tufts Chemistry has a new part-time Professor of the Practice position focused on mentoring graduate students for a future in research. Please apply, or DM me with your questions! apply.interfolio.com/168150apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 044
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupAlán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Go work with the amazing @valencekjell.com ! #chemsky 041
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 24/05/2025David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...youtu.beBreakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and CompanyYouTube video by Amanpour and Company 1240102
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025@repbonnie.bsky.social : May I humbly submit that this should be required viewing for everyone in Congress. I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...pbs.orgAmanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025David Liu joins the show. 010
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025@corybooker.com : May I humbly submit that this should be required viewing for everyone in Congress. I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...pbs.orgAmanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025David Liu joins the show. 010
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Please consider passing around this very informative interview to everyone you know (especially non-scientists). I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...pbs.orgAmanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025David Liu joins the show. 033
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Thank you for supporting efforts for tuberculosis treatments. 010
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJohn Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 23/05/2025HOOSIERS: I'm very excited to be in conversation with Michael Koryta for the Bloomington Book Festival. You can learn more and get tickets here: buskirkchumley.org/events/an-ev...buskirkchumley.orgAn Evening with John GreenBLOOMINGTON, IN — The Bloomington Book Festival, a three-day celebration that connects authors and readers, encourages literacy, and fosters community engagement, is thrilled to present an evening wit... 21937
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22/05/2025Stay strong @harvard.edu 312515
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Thank you for an amazing book that I am recommending to my research group members and all my TB research colleagues. If you ever want to speak to more faculty involved in TB drug discovery please let me know. www.newtbdrugs.org/pipeline/dis... : The pre-clinical candidate JSF-3285 is from our lab.newtbdrugs.org 000
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupStephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025If you are a PhD or postdoc and want to present your exciting science, make sure to check out the abstract challenge to present a Flash Talk at the Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social on September 30th. #ChemBio #ChemSky #DrugDiscovery chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... 083
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupNPR @npr.org · 21/05/2025Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.npr.orgDiseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months agoSome of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent. 923183068455
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupPeter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Opportunity for computational chemist at Vertex (Oxford UK) ref: REQ-24796 | closing: 31-May-2025 #CADD #CompChem #cheminformatics #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 vrtx.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/Vertex_Caree...vrtx.wd501.myworkdayjobs.comSenior Computational Chemist/Molecular ModellerJob Description We seek a highly motivated and experienced Computational Chemist to join our Computational Drug Design group in Oxford. The successful candidate will play a central role in driving dru... 01210
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupCathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025 181459598
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred. 15437396
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJohnson Lab - University of Iowa @campylobacterlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀 35677
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJohn Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Nice news (for me, anyway): Everything Is Tuberculosis is on the NYT bestseller list for a SEVENTH consecutive week. 37158024
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Bill Gates per today’s NY Times article: “I think there’s a logic to solving tuberculosis. I mean, it’s criminal not to solve TB. It’s criminal not to solve H.I.V. It’s criminal not to eradicate malaria.” 030
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupSebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚 7160278
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Very sad… Just because something is difficult is a poor excuse to quit. 000
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important. 5650322378
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Congratulations @heran.bsky.social ! 020
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupKat Mayer-Barber,PhD @mayerbarber.bsky.social · 26/04/2025🙌🏼🙌🏼 @heran.bsky.social 1242
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/nmedia.tenor.coma cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above himALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him 251037916
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Even with the steady stream of outrages, the stupidity and cruelty of these steps make it difficult for me to even type... I can't really imagine what it would be like to have a rare disease or to have a family member with one... /finmedia.tenor.coma cartoon character with a big mouth and pink eyes is screamingALT: a cartoon character with a big mouth and pink eyes is screaming 3262
The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 23/04/2025We are very happy to announce the publication of this work led by Eric Nuermberger and his lab at Hopkins and in collaboration with the Zimmerman and Alland groups. It discusses the further in vivo profiling of our preclinical TB candidate JSF-3285. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...journals.asm.orgThe KasA inhibitor JSF-3285 improves the sterilizing activity of bedaquiline-pretomanid-containing regimens in a mouse model of tuberculosis | Antimicrobial Agents and ChemotherapyTuberculosis (TB) is a global health threat with an estimated 10.8 million new cases occurring in 2023 (1). An estimated 400,000 of these new cases involved rifampicin-resistant or multidrug-resistant... 010
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025My quote of the day Faith and science can be united in charity if science is put at the service of the men and women of our time, and not distorted to their detriment or even destruction. Pope Francis, June 2024 8493101
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupMatt Bogyo @mbogyo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025If you are interested in lipids in bacteria, check out this awesome new review written by my talented student Alyssa Carter, super postdoc Emily Woods and me. #chembio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comChemical strategies for targeting lipid pathways in bacterial pathogensMicrobial pathogens continue to plague human health and develop resistance to our current frontline treatments. Over the last few decades, there has b… 03018
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants 761793939
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/04/2025Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social 0485
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/04/2025Thank you #MIT 07111
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/04/2025These Democratic senators need to hear from their constituents right now. Urge them to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill and protect our freedom to vote. KELLY (AZ) WARNOCK (GA) PETERS (MI) SHAHEEN (NH) HASSAN (NH) CORTEZ MASTO (NV) ROSEN (NV) Call your senators: indivisible.org/reso... 7317951068
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJohns Hopkins University @jhu.edu · 16/04/2025Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav.... 5340171
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupJayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I just can't put this devastation into words. I am so sorry. And absolutely will impact TB incidence in the coming years. 031
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupBen Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.” 11026605311334
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupKeith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 16/04/2025DAUPHINE IS MISSING IN JERSEY CITY: last seen at Ogden and Hobson, she's 45 pounds and chipped: 985113003409825. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT DAUPHINE! 211165
Reposted by The Freundlich GroupLaura Kiessling @laurakiessling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025These kinds of cuts are taking place when #TB rates are rising, including in the US. They dovetail with USAID cuts to #TB programs. 22611